. ~ ration without soy beans. ~ gerubbing feed pails? ; * * SOY BEANS WILL NOT FLAVOR MILK No Undeifrable Effects Ave Found in Illinois Test. “(By W. B. NEVENS, University of Illinois. ) Complaints that the feeding of soy - bean hay or ground soy beans to dairy ‘cows affected the flavors of milk, cream, and butter to such an extent that the products were either not sal- able or their market value was low- ered, reached the department of hus- ‘bandry during the past year. These ,complaints originated in several dif- ferent counties in the state, showing 'that the trouble was not confined to ‘one locality. - Experiments, therefore, were under- ‘taken to learn the cause of the trouble and, if possible, a remedy for it. Three groups of eight each were fed ‘during. six consecutive weekly periods “on rations consisting of either red clo- ! ver hay or soy bean hay, and a con- ‘centrate mixture with or without ground soy beans. The ground soy ‘beans formed from 10 to 25 per cent of the mixtures. The milk produced ‘was used in studies of flavor and com- Position, and butter was made from the cream - Neither high-quality soy Doan. hay ‘nor poor quality, moldy soy bean hay was found to have any effect upon the flavor of the milk (raw or pasteurized) skim milk, cream, or butter. Ground soy beans were likewise without ef- = upon flavor. The fat content of ‘the milk was affected but slightly, and the acidity was not changed appreci- ‘ably. Marked differences in cream volume were noted, but these seemed to be associated with individual cows. The most pronounced effects of the rations were upon the body of the ‘butter. Ground soy beans caused ‘the body to be gummy and the, con- dition became worse when the pro- ‘portion of soy beans in the ration was increased. Soy bean hay had a sim- ‘ilar effect but to a less degree. There ‘was a tendency for the iodine number to increase slightly with the larger amounts of soy beans in the ration. ~ While the effects of soy beans upon the body of the butter were not seri- ous, the score of the body of this but- ter was 1 to 1% points lower than that of the butter produced by the The studies of this problem are being continued, and it is hoped te be able to combine some feed with soy beans which will overcome in a great At measure “the un- desirable effects upon the body of the = butter. ~ Cream Producing Cows Return Monthly Income When properly fed and cared for the cream producing cow will return a sure profitable income each month im the year. On farms where only one or two cash crops are grown such an in- come is badly needed to meet the oper- ating expenses ¢f the farm while the cash crops are being grown and mar- keted. A good average cow when properly fed, will produce 600 gallons of milk annually containing 232 pounds of butterfat. This milk at 30 cents per gallon an average wholesale price, is worth $180. The manure from this cow is worth $20 per year as a ferti- lizer, making a total income of $200. ~ Where a milk market is not available at 40 $92.80, the butterfat from cents per pound, this cow, will bring ~ when sold to a creamery for butter making, and the shim milk left on the farm % worth $25, as a calf, chicken | and pig feed. Doi iry Facts < Poor land is scarce where cows are | abundant. " 3 * * * Ship cream at least three times a week in hot weather. : HSB Dull knives in the ensilage cutter increase the power requirement about 50 per cent. * * ® Had you ever thought that scouring of calves may be caused by a lack of * Good breeding and good feeding go hand in hand. Success depends upon combination of the two. * * * Cold drafts are responsible for pneumonia, garget, ete. Ventilation ~ ‘should be provided without drafts. * * * The safest method for one man to’ lead a bull is with a staff. This ap- plies with equal force to the gentle and the cross bull. * x *x Feed flavors enter milk mainly through the body of the cow and not ‘by absorption from the surrounding ‘atmosphere. » * * Feed flavors and odors produced in milk usually show a decrease in in- ‘tensity four. hours after feeding and ‘practically disappear in seven hours. 7 * kx * : Highly flavored feeds may be fed immediately after milking without se- riously affecting the flavor and odor of the milk produced at the next ase ina i EGG PRODUCTION - DURING SUMMER Poultry Men Agree That It Depends on Best Care. Facing poultry men during the sum- mer is the problem of preventing a rapid drop in egg production with the coming of warm weather, when eggs bring good prices. Standard egg pro- duction in New Jersey for June is 18 ggs per bird, for July it is 16 eggs, and for August, 13 eggs. Whether or not a flock makes standard produc: tion during these three months de pends entirely on the care it is giv- en by the poultry man, announces the poultry department of the New Jer- sey agricultural experiment station. According to the station, successful poultry men agree that good summer egg production depends on attention to little details of management and not on one outstanding factor. Cull ing the flock, for example, is not the most important factor in obtaining standard production, but just one of the many factors. In fact, culling should be last in the effort to hold production. The laying house should receive at- tention first, as a means of holding egg production. All windows should be opened to provide good ventila- tion and to keep the house cool. Lice and mites are often the cause of the flock falling off in production. Careful inspection of the birds and coop should be made once a month for these parasites. It is considered a good practice to treat the flock for body lice hy using sodium floride or any lice powder. Generally, one treatment is sufficient for the entire summer. The roost, drop-boards, and nests should be painted with any coal tar product as a means of controlling the mites. When such cannot be ob- tained, a mixture of kerosene oil and old crank case oil from the tractor or automobile can be used to advan: tage. Heavy consumption of mash, so im portant to heavy production, is ob- tained in the summer by feeding only 8 or 10 pounds of grain to each 100 birds; keeping mash always before the birds; and keeping the layers con- fined to the house where they will 2! ways be near the mash hoppers! Other factors found to be impor- tant in feeding are: a daily supply of fresh green feed such as dande- lions, lawn clippings, and weeds from the garden; and a constant supply of fresh, clean, cool water. When production falls below 50 per cent, it is time to start culling, if the foregoing factors mentioned have been carefully followed. Provide Natural Shade for All Young Poultry An ideal range will provide natural shade where the young birds may find protection from the hot summer sun. Many poultry flocks do not have this natural protection, say poultry spe- cialists of the Pennsylvania State col- lege, so some means of protection must be provided. Moving the colony houses near a cornfield makes ideal range conditions. Sunflowers planted around the colony house also will pro- vide satisfactory shade. If the colony houses cannot be moved near a corn- field and sunflowers are not used, some form of artificial shade should be provided. Old feed bags placed on a frame about two or three feet above a ground will give the needed pro- tection. - Always Make Fowls as Profitable as Possible There is a great temptation for the poultryman who is ambitious to equal the records made by others. Natur- ally any one wants to make his hens as profitable as possible, and as the rule generally applied is to keep a hen only to the end of her first lay- ing year and then replace her with pullets, the effect of high egg pro- duction on the laying hens apparently is negligible as she is sent to pot be- fore any evil effects of force feed- ing can interfere with her laying. Mistake With Geese A common mistake made in raising geese is to try to feed them upon grains without sufficient grazing. the geese have good green feed they will need but little additional. Grit and oyster shell should always be ac- cessible. During the summer a satis- factory method consists in providing one feed a day of equal parts of corn meal. bran and ground oats. During the winter the same grains are satis- factory, but steamed clover or alfalfa hay should be added. Grain for Geese Geese should not be fed hard grains, but ground feeds mixed in what are known as mashes and fed in a moist state. A good ration for geese would be tbree parts of yellow corn meal, four parts of wheat bran, one part of red dog flour or flour middlings. To this add 5 per cent of meat scraps and during the laying or breeding season 15 per cent. At all times 1 per cent of fine sifted sand and one-half per cent of fine table salt. Any kind of green feed will help. If, History Of Dallas Continued From Last Week Jude Baldwin was one of the early settlers. He had a large family. His sons uere Burr, Abed, Lewis J. Watson and Ambrose. The last is living some- where in the west as is also his youngest daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Brown, Jr. Abed and Burr carried on the mercantile business in Huntsville in my father’s old store house. The Fullers settled in Lehman and Plymouth (now Jackson) townships in an early day. There were two brothers that settled near Huntsville, Benajah and Joshua. They built the first saw- mill and grist mill “over the moun- tain” (as we were in the habit of call- ing it). They came from near Kent, Connecticut, and the first purchased in Kingston, nearly opposite Colonel Dorrance’s, and, if my memory is cor- rect, cold to Mr. Sharp and purchased a large tract of wild land about Huntsville on the Jackson and Leh- man sides. The saw-mill was situated just above the present bridge. When I lived in Huntsville a heavy freshet uncovered the old mudsill—ahemlock log—that had been buried beneath the ground for fifty years, and it was sound as the day it was first put in. The grist-mill was located just below where the present one is standing. It had two-run of stones one of burr and one of pudding or conglomerate stones, such as found on Shawnee Mountain. The grist mill was built some time after the saw-mill. There was a very good water privilege to supply these mills before the country was settl- ed and the forest was cleared away, but the advance of civilization had lessened the supply. Just above the saw-mill, at the mouth: of a large marsh, through which the west branch of Toby's Creek runs, the hills comihg near together left a narrow passage for the escape of the water. The bea- ver, with his cunning instinct, selected this outlet to erect a dam, which he did in a most substantial manner When T first remember Huntsville the remaing of this dam were visible. I should judge it was originally about some two or three hundred acres ot land. But since the country has been cleared up the sudden and heavy freshets have washed away its last remains. “Benajah Fuller was a Revolutionary soldier and drew a pension, 1s did his widow. His wife, “Aunt Katy” Catherine Thompson) survived eight years. They had, three sons William, Jeremiah and Issaac. Chester Fuller, son of William, now resides in Lehman—a prosperous farmer living on the old homestead. Harvey son of Jeremiah, is living at Hunts- ville. Bath» brothers had other children who went west. Truman Atherton married their daughter Clarrissa, with whom the old folks mada their last earthly home. The sons of Isaac Fuller were five. One now resides, I think, in Bradford county, Two went west and two died. Benajah Fuller was an in- dustrious and upright man, beloved and respected by all who knew him. His eldest daughter married Wm. Trucks the founder of Trucksville. Louise married Daniel Ruggles. Laura mar- ried a Mr. Trundall, whose son James lives opposite my present dwelling house, and is one of our wealthiest and four feet high which would overflow | (nee | him | Iman & Shaver, | steam saw mill was added, Fuller (mill. most, respected citizens. “Joshoua near his brothers on the farm now owned by Dr. Rogers. He had three sons Sylvanus, Stephan and Abram. The latter died when a young man. Sylvanus or ‘Uncle Vene' as he was known, lived near Jude Baldwin. He was a thrifty farmer, and was al- ways full of fun and god nature, one of the best-hearted men in the world, respected and beloved by all his neigh- bors. He removed to Loraine county, Ohio, about 1830 or 1835, and accu- malated a handsome property. His son Abram, the only child left, is still liv. ing on the old homestead, a wealthy man. Stephan also moved farther west. I know but little of him since he left Pennsylvania. Joshua also had four daughters. One married the late Benja- min Reynolds; one married Amos Brown; another married Joseph Wor- thington, Jr.; the fourth, Amzi never married. She lived near Harvey's Lake and died within a few years back. There was another brother, who sett- led in Northumberland, of whom I know but little. There were no other mills built on the northeastern fork of Toby’s Creek above William Truck’s mills until about the year 1815, when Philip Sha- ver built a saw-mill about a half a mile below the point where Toby's Creek crosses the line between Dallas and Kingston townships, on the site where the old mill now stands near the residence of Lewis R. Shaver. (Now “Shavertown” station on W. B. & H. I. R. R.) On this mill Philip Shaver sawed the siding which are now (1886) in use on the old wagon bridge across the Susquehanna at Wilkes-Barre. (Replaced 1892-3 by new steel bridge) They were furnished by Philip Shav- er under a contract at $5.00 a thousand feet, delivered at the bridge, and to be two-thirds panels. About the year 1818 another saw-mill was erected by Christian Rice (who came from near Greensburg, Warren county, New Jersey about that time) a few! rods below the point where the main road crosses Toby's Creek in the present village of Dallas. That mill was still standing up to about 1880. Another mill was erected along in the thirties by Jacob Frantz near the - present Frantz school house, on the northern- most branch of the north fork of Toby's Creek.. Still another mill was erected about the same time midway between the Frantz mill and the John Leonard clearing. This was known as Weston This branch of Toby’s Creek was too smell to afford any sufficient wat- er power, 2nd these mills had to be abandoned many vears ago. About the year 1840 Abram and Ben- ard Ryman built a saw-mill on the site of present steam saw-mill of Ry- about half a mile below In the year 1852 a and these two were run together until the year 1870, when both were torn down and a Dallas village. large steam mill was erected, ocupying!’ the ground of both former mills. This new steam mill was burned about July! or August, 1881, and the present mill was built in the same year. The foregoing comprise the saw- mills on Toby’s Creek within the ter- ritory of Dallas township. Prior to 1890there has never been a grist mill within the territory of Dallas town- so far as I can learn. In that year a steam grist-mill was erected about 100 feet northeast of the site of the old Christian Rice sau-mill in the borough of Dallas by Gregory and Heitzman. (Continued Next Week) draw s BOILS to a natural he ad] Attractive Design Suitable for Either Corner or Ordinary Lot Rent Receipts Are a Liability. You a Standing in Your Community. tid A Home Like This Is a Real Asset and Gives This Home Was Selected for Its Beautiful and Convenient Floor Layouts. By W. A. RADFORD Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to practical home building, for the read- ers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, he is, without dcubt, the highest authority on all these sub- jects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 11, and only inclose two-cent stamp for reply. Some homes are designed especially for a corner lot, especially if the lot is narrow in its extent on one or the other of the streets. For a lot of this character the colonial home is ex- cellent. It may be placed facing either one of the streets because of its de- sign and the end appears to be the front. A design for a colonial home that may be built either on a corner lot oir an ordinary let is shown in the ac- companying illustration. As will be seen the sun parlor is built on one end and faces the street. This plan can be reversed if it is desired. The house is 22 feet wide by 28 feet long, It contains five rooms besides the sun parlor, bath and a sewing room on the second flcor. The sewing LIVINGRM. nexev'o” DIN ING RM no" xi2'e" First Floor Plan. room. it will be noted from the floor plans, is large enough for a small bad- room. This is a true colonial design both in exterior appearance and the inte- rior arrangement. The entrance door is through an outside passage and leads into a narrow hall out of which As ) runs the stairs to the second floor. BEAR BRA N D SALY \Y he ! arranged accerding to the plan shown, 30° : package includes spat- also a 1 the living room is at the left and ex ula.bandage and tape JOrZats 2 S93 | GROBLEWSKI & CO. Plymouth.Pa. founded /897. A ll | Main Street, Heard About This Great Chick Grower? T’S the sensation of the poultry business. Grows ordinary young chicks into big, well-formed, ‘eager-to-work pullets of the finest type. It’s called Quaker FUL-O-PEP Growing Mash Made by The Quaker Oats Company, it contains a large amount of fresh, pure oatmeal. Also, cod liver meal, and molasses in dry form. It’s a bal- anced ration, all ready for use just as it comes from the sack. Use it—and you'll enjoy seeing the birds grow faster and better. KEYSTONE FLOUR & FEED CO. Luzerne, Pa. N 5UY QUAKER FEEDS IN STRIPED SACKS . The Sward Is Mightier Than the Pen < Experiments have shown that pigs properly fed on pastive will return a profit over feed cost about twice as great as those fed excellent rations in dry lot, says the Sears-Roebuck Agri- cultural Foundation. When on pasture, hogs need only about half as much protein supple- ment, the most expensive part of the ration, as in dry lot. In addition, a little less corn is needed. They also obtain part of the minerals required, and vitamines, especially those most lacking in farm grains. More important than saving feed is the number of pigs saved. By handling from time of birth to avoid infection PIGS ON PASTURE ARE MORE HEALTHY, GAIN FASTER, REQUIRE LESS GRAIN, AND RETURN A LARGER 7 PROFIT - SEARS-ROEBUCK AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION : from intestinal worms and bacterial diseases found in old hog lots, about 25 per cent more can be saved on pas- ture and there are no runts. The pro- tein, minerals, and vitamines obtained, the succulent feed, the exercise, sun- light, and better sanitation, all add to their health and thrift. Alfalfa, red and alsike clover, rape, soy beans, and oats and peas are among the best pasture for hogs, the Foundation continues. Sweet clover, blue grass, rye, timothy, sudan grass and amber sorghum may be used for short periods. Four or five acres ef tends the whole width of the house, being 21 feet long and 11 feet 6 inches wide. In the center of the outside wall of this room is set an open fire- place with french doers leading to tha sun parlor on either side. The sun parlor is 19 feet long and 7 feet 6 inches wide and has almost continu- ous windows, making it a very attrac- tive sunny and airy room. To the right of the entrance hall through a cased opening is the dining room. This is also large, being 11 feet DEDRM. Wax i140" TERR I ale ==) Second Floor Plan, by 12 feet 6 inches. At the back is the kitchen, 8 feet by 11 feet. The stairs leading to the second floor end in a hall at the back off of which open two large bedrooms, sew- ing room and the bathroom. One of the bedrooms is 11 feet by 15 feet, and the other is 11 feet 6 inches by 14 feet. The ‘sewing room is 8 feet by 6 feet G inches. Off the two large bedrooms are closets of large capacity. It will be noted that these bedrooms are cor- ner rooms and are light and airy. The house is of frame construction with shingles for siding. This follows the colonial design so common in New England and makes a most attractive house. Another feature that indicates the colonial are the half fan lights im the end gables opening into the attic. This is a very attractive and popu- lar home building design. Because its foundation walls are straight and as are also the side walls, it is a com- paratively inexpensive home to build. At the same time it provides five large and comfortable rooms and all the conveniences to be found in the mod- ern home. Proper Insulation Pays; Helps Cut Down Expense | Insulation properly applied is not | expensive. It can be shown that it | pays its own way, first, by making it | possible to reduce the size of the heat- [ing plant, and, second, by reducing the necessary consumption of coal. Insulation goes on quickly—is not | difficult or expensive to apply. Fur- | thermore, it ean be obtained from al- most any reliable building supply deer Like all other materials used | in building, it must be applied prop- | erly to get the desired results. Another interesting thing about in- | sulation is that it works almost as well in summer as it does in winter, for then it keeps the heat out and makes your house a more comfortable place tc live in. Some of the modern comforts with which we surround our- selves, which, having once been luxu- rious, are now coming to be thought of | as necessities, add to the cost of liv- ing, make it more difficult for us to build our homes on limited incomes; but insulation pays its own way. It is a bad building investment to do without it. Sheathing in Small House Stops Fire Risk Necessity for installing fire-stopping between a brick veneer exterior and the sheathing of a wood frame house can be eliminated through the use of an incombustible mineral sheathing. Such a sheathing provides its own fire-stop on the inside of the structure. Nor can the blaze travel far up in the air space between the brick and the sheathing because of the facing of in- combustible materials on both sides. In laying brick veneer over mineral sheathing the bricks are tied in with metal ties, which are nailed into the sheathing with no more difficulty than the same ties are nailed into wood. This is made possible by the gypsum composition of the incombustible sheathing. Mineral sheathing comes in large panels, which are tongue-and-grooved and which, in consequence, make pos- sible a wall that is sealed against the infiltration of wind and which cut down the escape of furnace heat. ~ | a a a Fey a TT { | i | {i
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